Who Am I in Christ TAKE #2 "Know Your Position"

In the TAKE #1 I explained that to be a Single with a purpose woman in my view point, you first need to have knowledge and acceptance of Jesus Christ and who he was and the sin in us that brought him here to die on the Cross for us. Then Trust him through faith to be your personal Savior. For Whosover Shall Call Upon The Name Of The Lord Shall Be Saved Romans 10:13
I honestly believe you can be single and do great things, possible even have a sky high confidence in yourself, but to be purposed is to discover that you have a need, a void in your heart and it needs to be filled. Not By all the world offers such as, materiel things, careers, men, relationships, love, money, and many other things. These are all good, but not if you believe it will fill the void in your heart. It will never happen and you will continue your search for more but never have it quenched!
I think we can move to the next segment, I hope I haven't said this in way to confuse or offend but I hope to encourage and bring hope!

TAKE #2

Well let's discover Jesus as a King! Hebrews 1:8-9, explains Jesus a king that will reign forever!

I once had an older woman point something out to me. She said "Anita according to Hebrews 1:8-9, do you believe Jesus is a King?" I said, "yes." Then she said "have you accepted him as your saviour?" I said, "Of Course". Then she asked me, "what does that make you?" After a moment I realized her point and said, "I am a Princess".

WOW! I am a princess. We all are if we have accepted him as our saviour!

You may not believe me, but that the bible says in Psalms 68:5b "He will father the fatherless."

1John 3:1 "Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not."

Are you beginning to get a picture of who you are in Christ? Jesus is our Heavenly Father, we were adopted through faith. We are his daughters! Jesus is also, a King who reigns in Heaven! We are Princesses!

I remember being new in my walk with the Lord and even a while after, I knew this to be knowledge in my head, but I could not seem to understand it and let it wrap itself around my heart long enough to change who I saw my self as! I kept believing I was as filthy rags because that was the label put on me by someone else's sin. I saw a girl who was short and chubby and plain. But when I was 19, God took one situation to finally shake me up enough to let him show me that I was his daughter, a princess, Royalty! I am not confident of myself but have confidence in who I am IN Christ!! In fact, it says, in Phillipians, that "I can do ALL things through Christ, who strengthens me."

To Be continued......

Who Am I in Christ? "UNDERSTANDING HIS LOVE TAKE #1"

I am sorry for the delay in this post! I have been a little distracted the past few days!
I went to Ohio for 2 weeks. Visiting my sister and working a little bit for a friend along with having a great opportunity to speak and sing at a church down here! Of course, I can't forget the wonderful time I am having with my niece and nephew!

So.... let's get down to it!!
How do we get to this point of having a true definition of who we are in Christ and why would that be so crucial in getting Becoming a person of purpose??

TAKE #1

It Starts with a accepting Jesus Christ as our Personal Savior! He Died on the cross for our sins. Why, would he do such a thing? It starts with a Heavenly Kingdom with a Ruler, God. He created us for his pleasure. But Also, with free will to choose to be his. We as human have this awful sinful nature, and can not enter his kingdom unless we are redeemed!

John 3:16 says, "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life."

Let us break this down a little....

First, for God so LOVED the World (that means you and me) SO much that he gave us, WHAT?? His ONLY son! Please think logically, here for a minute with me. How many of us would give up our only, precious, beloved son to die on a cross a brutal death that none other has ever experienced for people who are sinners and can not possibly get to Heaven on our own! Do you have that Kind of love to offer to some one who loves let alone those who hate and despise you? This is the Kind of love God has for you!

"..That whosoever believes in HIM shall NOT perish but have everlasting life!" All we have to do is Believe in Jesus Christ and Accept him in your heart, and you receive this wonderful beyond description gift, of eternal life. Nothing this world offers can give this to you. No Scientist and their newest Anti-Aging remedy, nor any Herbal remedy. Nothing, except that you believe in Jesus Christ as your personal savior and let him live in your heart.

This is the Amazing love of a God and Ruler of all creation. Who has a son, the King of the Heaven's and the Earth. His love is so rich and deep for you, that if you will stop your search for love today and turn over to him you will never feel that void again! It will be filled.

My next post I would like to share about the LOVE of a King named Jesus and who we are as his daughter's, and the story of a Samaritan woman...

I know that I may be a little bold, but if you will only trust me enough to listen and take this journey with me, you will reap wonderful benefits for a lifetime and after!

God-Bless, AnitaKay

Sharing what I've been thinking about!

OK! I am so excited today! Why? Well, I have kind of let you see who I am but now I can share what I love to talk about! "What's that?", you may ask. Well it's about guys. Yes, I know some people are apposed to being open about it, but this is the topic I have become passionate about sharing! Although, I don't like to talk about them in the ways that we have come so used to.

Whether we like it or not, and we pretend in front of all the right people, women have had crushes on men since they knew what romance was at the age of 3! God created us to love and to be loved. To be a help mate! To have Children, and raise them to love and Serve the Lord! All this we find in the Scriptures, and guess what I want this too!! I am almost 26 and I want to be married and now that I have a special man in my life I want to have a baby more now than ever! But it doesn't change one little thing! That is, that I am not married, nor do I have a baby yet.

So what does God want me and you to do until we are? Well, I know he doesn't want us to sit around twiddling our thumbs, or going man shopping every Sunday or event that we go to, nor does it mean that we are to live the "Great Single Girl" life of shopping and partying and having life just about us.

The Next 3 Posts are going to be be about a 3 step adjustment process God had to do in my thinking of who I am, where I am in my life and what he wants me to do! And I believe he wants all single young women(or old and married women) To seek him and his purpose for us no matter what season it is in our lives!

Maybe you are 13, 15 yrs old and you are so insecure because you just aren't pretty or small enough for someone to take notice! Honey, God has a taken a notice in you and loves you so much for the precious child you are to him, that he gave a gift greater than anything you will ever receive from a boy or later on a man, and that is his son Jesus Christ. If you accept him as your personal Savior and dwell in him, he will pour himself on you, and you'll have such a wonderful perspective on what he desires for you.

Maybe you're in your college or mid 20's early 30's, and you are ready to meet Mr. Right and be married and have a family, but all you keep meeting is all the Mr. Wrongs! Well, girls have you truly met the First and most important Mr. Right in your Life? Once I met enough Mr.Wrongs I surrendered and Finally found that Jesus was more than just my Savior! He is my All in All, he was my first love! I have been saved for 8 yrs, but have been learning about this love relationship with Jesus Christ for 6 yrs. The more time I spend with him the more intimate it is and and how wonderful! It has truly transformed my way of thinking.

And maybe you are married, and you never even got to this place! You love you husband and kids, but wish it were something more. You may possibly be one who never feels loved by your husband and he says you expect too much! There are many of us who get married b/c we want to be loved and never discovered the Special love that fills the void only Jesus Christ can fill. Then we get married and expect out husbands to fill it. And when he obviously fails, because he's human we get let down and feel unloved, and 10 years later you night be the one saying "He never loved me" and be getting a divorce. I believe if you discover who are in Christ and allow him to love you, and put Christ as your First Love you will feel much more loved by you husband!

Well this is all to lead to the First Adjustment in our thinking! Who Am I to Christ!
Can't wait to share this with you!!
God-Bless, Anitakay

Thou None Go With Me Still I Will Follow

OK, I am going to try and keep this short today, but before I go any further, I want to share that this Blog is where I can pour out my heart about what the struggles are in my life and any single woman's life. However, not just to burden people, but to encourage them as I share how God lifts me out of these trials. I want to be as real as I can with you.

About 2 years, ago I left my home and job and volunteered at a Christian camp! Want an experience for me and a time God used to draw me closer to him. During these 3 months, I was really seeking God in what he would have next for me in his agenda after this. I knew it would be something to stretch me, but I choose to keep asking for direction! About a week before I left I got the opportunity to work in Co. at the YMCA of the Rockies. I was so scared but had great peace that I needed to go. I was just a little fearful about my parents not being too excited about this. As I was praying and seeking God's Peace on this I ran across 2 verses, that opened the door of courage in my heart to follow the Lord Wherever He desired. Let me share them with you.

Luke 14:26 says,

If any comes to me and does not hate his father or mother, his wife, or children, his brothers or sisters-yes, even his own life-he cannot be my disciple.

Matthew 10:37-38 says,

Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more that me is not worthy of is not worthy of me; and anyone who does not pick up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me.

Now, please don't take this that you have to hate your father or mother, son or daughter in order to follow the Lord! However, as I have been meditating and studying these 2 passages and the context around them, this is what I have taken from it and received much courage to follow whole heartedly after Jesus Christ my Savior.

What this is saying is the there is only 1 top priority in our life, and that belongs to the Lord! He will not compete for it, nor will he be second or third to anyone or anything else in our lives. If we want to live pleasing to him and serve as his disciples we are to Love and be obedient to first and foremost.

Please don't let this scare you as if you are going to have bad relationships or a bad life, but contrary to it. He gives us a life of abundance of joy, and peace, and for me Courage.

Why am I writing this today? Well, since my move to Colorado 11/2 yrs. ago, (which my parents accepted even with the few fears they had) I have had some choices to make there that went against the grain of my 24/7 environment out there. Very often only clinging to God's word and the peace he gave me was all the encouragement I had along with a few good friends and a wonderful chaplain.

I have now met a wonderful person who has touched my life so Amazingly. However, this and the fact that he is of of different racial and cultural background, and the fact that I may live there someday goes against the grain of many people, which doesn't bother me. The only ones that hurt at times are from those who are closest to my heart who don't always see. For sure, I understand concerns and worries, but it doesn't make it any easier.

Today, I cling to these verses. Why? Because as I search my heart for wrong motives in loving someone I believe designed to complete me. And also my motive in my desires, I know that I am only following the path that I believe whole heartedly is God's will for me. Today is hard as I think of those who do not celebrate this with me. I love them and am praying that God will work in their hearts as well as mine for understanding and peace about these decisions, but I love Jesus Christ first and foremost! Though none go with me still I will follow! No matter how hard some days!

I don't know what you may be facing today.. maybe you are afraid to make Christ first and follow with abandoned passion with him First, or maybe you already have and you may be having a day like mine, where you just desire God's peace and joy one more day as you take your cross and follow after him! He didn't say it would be easy, just worth it!

God-Bless, AnitaKay

Lessons from the Songs Birds Sing

On Monday morning I was sitting on my couch with my windows open filling my home with sunshine, a warm breeze, and the song of the Birds Singing!

This morning I was able to take the time spent in prayer and studying God's word and of course as I was praying over all the things that are going in my life and my families, and community, and my country, and this world! The list just kept going on in my heart as I was talking to my father in heaven. After a while I just had STOP and ask for peace through all this.

I don't think it is just me who has these moments of an overwhelming fear when we see all the things going on in this world. It is scary! This week we are just hearing about the Swine flu and what a pandemic it causing. We still see war going on and more to come, the economy falling around us. And this was when I noticed the birds singing!

I just had to take a little thought break in the midst of my prayer time and listen to their song. You know what the songs title was? "Inmeasurable Peace". Just watch them, chirping away, floating from branch to branch, as if they don't have a care in the world. Don't they see the chaos? They would be affected too, right?

I started thinking about all the struggles they face. They have had rougher winters and seasonal changes. They are dependant on nature to supply their food, and if the season's are rough they don't get all their needs met. They are dependant on the natural system to direct their travel plans. Yes, they are effected by the long winter and late springs just as were are. All the hurricanes, tornadoes, forest fires and other natural disasters detroy their homes also. Of course there is always an abundance of larger animals who see them as they little prey and seek to devour them!

No I am not an animal rights, activist! Here is the point. Knowing all this, it was amazing to me to hear these little creatures still singing as if their world was perfect! Their song "Inmeasurable Peace" was the song of creatures, that because they knew their creator, had peace in spite of the chaos!

Listen to the words of their Song.

"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear. Life is more than food, and the body more than clothes. Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds! Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest?
"Consider how the lilies grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today, and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith! And do not set your heart on what you will eat or drink; do not worry about it. For the pagan world runs after all such things, and your Father knows that you need them. But seek his kingdom, and these things will be given to you as well.
"Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom. Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will not be exhausted, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

This is a passage I want to keep in my heart to give me "Inmeasurable Peace", just as the birds of the air and the Lily of the Valley. Luke 12:22-34

Have a Blessed day! Anitakay

Who Am I?

You may wonder who is this girl and WHY is she so passionate about being single with a purpose? You might even be slightly annoyed, I don't know. So today I desire to give you an summary of what brought me to this point and WHY I am so passionate about being this girl and now spread the message to young women everywhere!
It started when I was born! God created me like every single other female from generation to generation. That is the ability to love and the need to be loved in return. By who? Well everyone but there is that spot that says a man should fill it. When I was young it was my dad and as I got older it was my dad and then a boy and by my preteens I was reading the romance novels getting in to the fantasy world of romance novels. By the time I was 16 and 17, I was what I call a girl with PPS Syndrome. Poor, Pathetic, and single! It wasn't until I was 19 and had a painful experience that I waved a surrender flag to God. I found these 2 books that changed my thinking of who I thought I was and who I really was, what I was searching for and what I needed to start searching for.
I thought that I was Anita this girl who wasn't the most beautiful, most talented, or the one with the best figure. I wanted to feel loved and that meant I needed a guy to tell me and give me that attention or I wasn't valuable, beautiful. I strove for this and in the end I just felt empty.

Now I am a christian and I believe that a life without Christ would be the loneliest, most empty place in the world. I just hadn't discovered that even being a Christian Jesus Christ wanted make a home in this empty part of my heart. He says that I am worth far more than rubies! I was searching for some to love me. Hello this man Jesus died on the cross because of his great love for me and said if I would trust him He would give me all my hearts desire!
When I discovered the depth of his love for me not just as my Savior, but also as my Daddy, and Lover of my soul! He washed away this need I had to hear men say beautiful words, to pursue me! All that I need is in Jesus Christ, he completes me! Now instead of searching for a soul mate I search the heart of my Savior and He has taken my on an Exciting Journey! Jesus Christ gave me the antidote for PPS SYNDROME, and I am now SPP. Single, Purposed and Powerful!
Can I have a relationship? Yes! In fact, I have one now. However, I needed to be complete and confident in who I was in myself and Jesus Christ first! Why, Because Ismael is only a compliment to the already wonderful life that God has given me. I no longer need Ismael or any other man to try to fill the little empty part of my heart, because they can't and we will never be happy with the other person as we long to have them fill it! It wasn't meant to be their job!
What once read "Vacancy" no reads "No vacancy". It truly is a wonderful place to be at!
God-Bless, AnitaKay

A repeat of events but a change of heart!

Well, my friends I was hoping to start my blog with a different post. I was thinking more of something along the lines of sharing who I am. However, because of the current events that took place this week, I thought is would be a great way of introducing myself to you.

This week I was laid off from my job. I know that so many people have lost there jobs in the last year and are struggling to make ends meet. I am fortunate that it is only me to provide and not a family with a house mortgage, etc. Although, this is not what makes my situation easier to swallow.

October of 2006, I was laid off from my job after working 3 1/2 years. I enjoyed it, got paid well, and had bosses that were great to the employees. However, in my heart and times with the Lord I knew that he had different plans for me. One that included working with people and children. I just just didn't have the courage to quit all that good stuff. After I got laid off the beginning was a Little rough. My attitude showed no signs of trusting this Amazing God for all my needs. No peace that he had a plan for me. I only saw that my life line of income was gone! It took a few months and reading Hebrews Chapter 11, to give me a sense of faith and trust.

Since then the amazing journey that this Amazing God we serve through Jesus Christ his son, has left me in awe! The most amazing part is that I survived, my life didn't end.
Now I have returned to this job in June of 2008 and April 22, 2009 I was laid off again.
I can honestly say that I am not living in fear of what will I do. Where will work? No throwing up because of my nerves. All this has been replaced with a Peace of mind that surpasses ALL my understanding.

In the beginning of this year my boyfriend Ismael (which you will read more about) convinced me to read the bible beginning to end. This has been so great! Every time I open up to read, the words come to life. If there is one things I have come to understand this far is this. God is truly above every circumstance, and as he was the God of the Israelites and provided for them, he will do the very same thing for his children today that live in obedience to him and his word!

For sure this is a repeat of events in my life, but Glory to God that he has changed my heart to trust in him through this time! I am praying for all of you that may be going through this exact same thing. Trust God and let his perfect love cast out all your fear. He wants to!

God-bless, AnitaKay